Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 1 November 2015 at 05:20 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Halton at 05:20 on Sunday 1 November 2015. A 26-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2015
- Sunday, 05:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31806, longitude -2.73805, in the WA7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mersey & Weston, Halton, WA7 4QJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075326210
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2023.
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Halton, 1 December 2023
16 m awayRef 2023071212232
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on a C road in Halton, 27 January 2005
22 m awayRef 2005070500440
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Halton, 16 July 1992
30 m awayRef 1992072B40875
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A557 in Halton, 7 September 2000
72 m awayRef 2000070011192
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Halton, 1 July 1986
85 m awayRef 1986076E20741
Slight
Minibus crash on the A557 in Halton, 22 November 1981
106 m awayRef 1981071E21369
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2015075326210 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 2015.